As shown in the previous posting, the “mark of the Beast” (Sunday Sabbath Law) has been around for some 2000 years.  From the institutionalizing of the law until now both Catholics and Protestants have born the mark which is a globally-recognized characteristic of the church.  I find it ironic that those who claim to be God’s people use the BREAKING OF ONE OF HIS COMMANDMANTS as the premiere “sign” of their allegiance to Him?  This in spite of the fact that God says to them in the Book they proclaim to be His Word that OBEDIENCE TO THAT SAME COMMANDMENT is the “sign” of one’s allegiance to Him.  In fact, He calls their keeping of THAT SAME COMMANDMENT A PERPETUAL COVENANT between Him and His people  (Exo. 31:14-17).   Is it possible that church people can be so spiritually corrupt that they cannot accept this Biblically-confirmed Truth?  The Lord, through the Prophet Jeremiah, answers that question: “The heart (mind) is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” (17:9).  Satan has worked long, hard and effectively to convince Bible-possessing church people to reject the very Words they possess.  Contrasted to them are multitudes of God’s saints which were martyred in the past and will be martyred in the future for their strict adherence the very same Bible which Jesus Christ, the One they say proclaimed the Truth, said was God’s Truth (Jn. 17:17).

In Revelation 20:14 the Apostle John is shown in a vision all those who had been killed for Christ’s sake in the past, as well as those who would be martyred in the future.  John wrote: “… and I saw the souls of them who had been beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the Word of God.  These had not worshipped the Beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads or in their hands ….”  John was told that there would be another mass martyrdom during the Great Tribulation.  Read Revelation, the Fifth Seal and the Martyrdom of the Saints.  Key word–Martyrdom.  Anciently, millions of God’s true saints were put to death because they kept God’s Sabbath.  Then, as now, the seventh day Sabbath was God’s “test commandment.”  When the Beast, the False Prophet and the one-world church arrive on the scene in full power mode, the pressure to conform to their Sunday Sabbath law will become extremely difficult to resist.  However, many will refuse to take their “mark” and will be martyred for doing so.

The question each person will have to answer during the Great Tribulation is: should I take the mark/sign of the Beast?  Or do I accept God’s mark/sign as commanded by God in Exodus 31:12-17 and described in Deuteronomy 6:6-8?  The first option will allow one to remain alive physically, but will result in spiritual death.  The second option will result in one’s physical death, but will result in spiritual life.  Meanwhile, those who had believed and obeyed the Lord’s commandments, including #4, will be safely ensconced in their safety zone known as “her (His church’s) place.”

The vast majority, I’m guessing 99.99%, of professing Christendom does not believe a word found in this series, or on this website.  Among many other religious lies Satan has convinced them to embrace, his rapture ruse ranks among the most effective.  This theory has those in “the _______ church” (fill in the blank) swept up to heaven before the terror begins.  Because they are all supposedly saved in this life, they have no need to obey Him in this life.  His reward for believing in Him will be to go to heaven just before the Tribulation begins.  Their false prophets have convinced them that all “that Jewish stuff” had been “nailed to the cross.”  According to over two billion “Sinners Saved By Grace,” all one needs to do is believe in Jesus Christ.  As the Lord tells us, there will be “wailing and gnashing of teeth” when the rapture does not occur and reality sets in.   During this time God’s Two Witnesses will be telling everyone why they are in the situation in which they find themselves.  Many will see the error of their ways, turn to God in true repentance and be converted.  They will be martyred for doing so.  Read The Rapture for a Bible-proven expose’ of this soul-destroying “doctrine of devils.”  Key word–Rapture.

During the Tribulation the time will come when one will be forced to decide whose “sign/mark” one will exhibit–God’s Saturday Sabbath sign or Satan’s Sunday Sabbath sign.  The “mark” (sign) of the Beast and the “mark” (sign) of God revolve around obedience to the law of one’s God.  Regardless of which “sign/mark” one bears, one will pay a price.  One will be forced to “count the cost” of their chosen “mark/sign.”  Revelation 14 Ephesians 5:6 and Colossians 3:5,6 warn of the curses God will pour out on those who accept the “mark of the Beast” (Sunday Sabbath observance).  Those who “keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus” (Saturday Sabbath observance–vs 12) will be martyred.  Revelation 12:17 also identifies those who will be martyred as those “who keep the commandments of God.”  Note that the Sabbath commandment is not excluded.

Actually, what will happen to people during that terrible time will not directly involve the COVID-19 vaccination.  One will be judged by whether one has obeyed God’s commandments or man’s commandments.  The “mark of the Beast” is connected directly to one specific commandment–#4–which has been God’s “test commandment” which He has used to separated true Christians from false Christians for centuries.  Ultimately, everyone will be judged by their obedience to the Ten Commandments.  Number 4 commands us to “Remember THE Sabbath Day, to keep it HOLY” (Exo. 20:8).  The Ten Commandments comprise a summary of the entire Law of God from Genesis to Revelation.  As James 2:10 tells us, to break one of the commandments (for example #4) is to break the entire Law, making one a worker of INIQUITY (Lawlessness).  In verse 14 he notes that faith without works (obedience to the Law) cannot save the soul in that it is dead faith (vss 17,18,2o,24,26).  Living faith is manifested by obedience to the Law of God.

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